Is CGWS becoming open-source?

Christian Giordano, a friend and one of the Flash artist I estimate a lot for his creativity, recently decided to begin to make his works sources available for download.
If you never visit his site I suggest you to see some of the examples he’s publishing on the download area.. really nice!

p.s. See you next week, i’m flying to Malaga for a little holiday 🙂

http://nuthinking.com/goodies/downloads.htm

Adobe acquired Macromedia!

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by both boards of directors, Macromedia stockholders will receive, at a fixed exchange ratio, 0.69 shares of Adobe common stock for every share of Macromedia common stock in a tax-free exchange.
Based on Adobe’s and Macromedia’s closing prices on Friday April 15, 2005, this represents a price of $41.86 per share of Macromedia common stock.

This is a shocking news I never wanted to read!

more info here

NeoSwiff beta

After MTASC compiler, I read today of another upcoming SWF compiler.

NeoSwiff allows developers to write Flash™ applications in C#. NeoSwiff comes with a C# to SWF compiler, and also with a Visual Studio .NET support. This is very interesting 🙂
Moreover the compiler is available for Windows/Mac OSX and Linux
Some screenshots are available here: http://www.globfx.com/products/neoswiff/screenshots.php

EU process on software patents restarted

Since first reading of this here I have been trying to follow it. It seems a great victory was published today:

Florian Mueller, manager of the pan-European NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign: From the bottom of my heart I wish to thank all of those who made this possible, particularly the FFII, the Polish government, key parliamentarians in all political groups, and those companies and people who supported my campaign, especially in the days leading to this decision. “The NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign was brought into being with the support of three IT companies: 1&1 from Germany (world’s largest web hoster), Red Hat (premier Linux company) and MySQL AB (Europe’s largest open-source software company). Lobbying for a restart of the process was one of the initially stated goals of the campaign. “The Empires will strike back” in Mueller’s prediction. Even until the beginning of the committee meeting, such corporations as Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson and Alcatel had tried to thwart the plans, hoping to achieve the legalization of software patents in the EU at the earliest opportunity. read the full article

A big THANKS to alessandro for posting this important topic! 😉